The Emperor's Club
William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.
Release Date
November 22, 2002Runtime
108 minRating
PG-13Genres
DramaDirected by
Michael HoffmanWritten by
Ethan CaninScreenplay by
Neil TolkinLanguage
EnglishBudget
$0Revenue
$16,300,000Status
ReleasedCast
Kevin Kline
William HundertEmile Hirsch
Sedgewick BellEmbeth Davidtz
ElizabethPurva Bedi
Anna MehtaRob Morrow
James EllerbyEdward Herrmann
Headmaster WoodbridgeHelen Carey
Miss JohnstonJesse Eisenberg
Louis MasoudiPaul Dano
Martin BlytheKatherine O'Sullivan
The NunDeirdre Lorenz
Dr. Kelly RyanJoel Gretsch
Sedgewick Bell (older)Steven Culp
Older Martin BlytheRahul Khanna
Older Deepak MehtaPatrick Dempsey
Older Louis MasoudiNick Hagelin
Martin Blythe the 4thGabriel Millman
Robert BrewsterHarris Yulin
Senator BellImages
Videos
The Emperor's Club Trailer - 2002
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